Applying Skype in English as a foreign language instruction: Effect on students' speaking errors

Y. C. Yen, H. T. Hou*, K. E. Chang

*此作品的通信作者

研究成果: 雜誌貢獻會議論文同行評審

6 引文 斯高帕斯(Scopus)

摘要

Social networking services (SNS) have gained its popularity and utility in the past years, and there is an increasing interest in using SNS as an educational tool. Skype in particular provides teachers with a suitable platform to enhance students' language abilities and it is ideal for role-playing based learning activities. Role-playing has been proved to be an effective English as a foreign language (EFL) teaching tool. This pilot study was conducted on 42 students attending an English conversation course. Students' speaking errors during a role-playing Skype-based activity were being investigated with both quantitative and qualitative analysis. The findings of this pilot study indicated that Skype in combination with role-playing activities could gradually reduce the number of speaking errors and help improve speaking skills of EFL learners.

原文英語
頁(從 - 到)312-319
頁數8
期刊Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
8167 LNCS
DOIs
出版狀態已發佈 - 2013
事件12th International Conference on Web-based Learning, ICWL 2013 - Kenting, 臺灣
持續時間: 2013 10月 62013 10月 9

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • 理論電腦科學
  • 一般電腦科學

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